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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.913, cont., 17.921, 17.930)

inventory of magic signs, with explanations of their meaning in Albanian, is found on ff. 224a-227a); it is headed Falli Hazreti imam Aliut (another copy of this text is found in Cod.Or. 17.910(6), above). Towards the end of the volme, one finds a series of texts, mostly prayers, related to BektashTye rituals in Albanian and (transcribed) Turkish (see also Cod.Or. 17.910, above): an Erqan-namea (ff. 180a-194a), with texts in Albanian (red) and (transcribed) Turkish (black); a series of ‘terxhumans’, ‘duos', ‘teqbirs’, and and ‘gjulbengs' in Arabic/Turkish CTerxhumani Ikrar, Terxhumani Dar, Terxhumani Nijas, Terxhumani Taxh, and so on, ff. 195a-223a); a series of prayers in (transcribed) Arabic/Turkish (ff. 252a-267a), followed by a chronogram in Turkish on the death of Muharrem (‘Muharem’) Sultan, dated 9 Zil-hicce 1285 (23 March 1869, ff. 268a-269a); a series of prayers in (transcribed) Arabic and Turkish with Albanian explanations (in red, ff. 274a-284a). The volume ends with a detailed five-page survey of the contents. Acquired from F. de Jong, November 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.921 Turkish glosses This manuscript contains an undated copy of an excerpt (mukhtasar) of an Arabic work on early Islamic mythology entitled, Kanz al-asrar wa ’lawahiq al-afkar, by Muhammad b. SaTd as-Sanhajï (flourished in the first half of the 2nd/8th century, cf. GAL II, p. 246). It is accompanied by a few marginal glosses in Turkish, in a different hand, referring to [the dictionary of] Vankuli. Acquired from F. de Jong, November 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.930 Turkish text fragments

This manuscript contains a mid 16th-century copy of an Arabic encyclopaedic work entitled, at-Ta‘nfat, by ‘Alïb. Muhammad al-Jurjanl(d. 816/1413, cf. GAL II, p. 216). It was completed by Hüseyn b. fjalil in 966 (1558-9) - the specification of the day and month are given in fractions, only partly readable, cf. the colophon on f. 130a. A few Turkish text fragments: annotations, verses, and a fetvd by Ebüssu'üd, are found on the endpapers, ff. 130a-131b. Acquired from